| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| discomfit |
to upset or confuse. |
| disinter |
to dig up or remove from a place of burial; exhume. |
| epicure |
a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; connoisseur. |
| guttural |
articulated in the back of the mouth; velar. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| iatrogenic |
caused by a physician or medical treatment, especially from drugs or surgery. |
| insipid |
having a bland or uninteresting flavor; tasteless. |
| misfeasance |
a normally lawful act performed in an unlawful way. |
| neologism |
a new word, phrase, or usage. |
| nonpareil |
a person or thing whose excellence is unequaled; paragon. |
| parlous |
full of dangers or risks; perilous. |
| quadrant |
any of the four parts that result when an area is divided by two lines, real or imaginary, that intersect each other at right angles. |
| sequester |
to remove into protection and isolation; seclude. |